An application of the recreation level of service approach to forests in Israel

Fleishman, Larisa; Feitelson, Eran

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2008.10.012

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“…The notion of carrying capacity implies a threshold of visitor numbers that corresponds to the maximum level of use that a destination can accommodate without unacceptable alteration in environmental aspects or in the quality of visitor experience (Saeþórsdóttir, 2010). Despite the fact that carrying capacity indicators are considered as a crucial tool for determining levels of use and monitoring tourism development, there are many reservations expressed about the possibility of singling out consistent thresholds and clear benchmarks for quantifying carrying capacity (Fleishman & Feitelson, 2009;Manning et al, 2002). A number of studies attempted to incorporate stochastic and fuzzy decision rules in the estimation of carrying capacity to account for variability and uncertainty in observed indicators (Prato, 2001(Prato, , 2009.…”

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“…Additional difficulties in determining carrying capacity include uncorrelated crowding perceptions with actual visitor numbers and differences among various visitor groups in tolerating crowding (Leujak & Ormond, 2007). A final remark concerning the contribution carrying capacity in adaptive management relates to its reactive nature (Fleishman & Feitelson, 2009;Lawson et al, 2003): remediary action is initiated only after standards of quality have been violated or are close to be violated. A question that arises at this point is how carrying capacity can still be regarded as an important management tool in the light of all these reservations concerning its estimation.…”

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Can Forest Management in Protected Areas Produce New Risk Situations? A Mixed-Motive Perspective from the Dadia-Soufli-Lefkimi Forest National Park, Greece

Hovardas¹

2012

Sustainable Forest Management - Case Studies

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Section: How Many Visitors Are Enough?mentioning

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Can Forest Management in Protected Areas Produce New Risk Situations? A Mixed-Motive Perspective from the Dadia-Soufli-Lefkimi Forest National Park, Greece

Hovardas¹

2012

Sustainable Forest Management - Case Studies

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“…This effort has often been mentioned as defining and managing recreational carrying capacity [10]. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the carrying capacity of Erzurum Urban Forest with using Level of Service (LOS) as a new management technique that focuses on recreation experience [11]. The study has three goals in the scope of main purpose.…”

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“…By defining indicators and standards of quality, recreational areas can be pleasingly planned, monitored, and managed. Also, indicators of quality can be monitored over time, and if appropriate, management action can be taken in a way not to exceed standards of quality [11]- [32]. In an attempt to estimate the total visitor satisfaction of visitors, Fleishman and Feitelson (2003) [11] adapted Level of Service (LOS) to recreation areas as a new management technique.…”

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Examining the Level of Service in the Context of Recreational Carrying Capacity in the Erzurum Urban Forest, Turkey

Göktuğ¹,

Yildiz²,

Demir³

et al. 2015

JEP

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Urban forests are confronted with high using pressure because of the increasing demand for recreation and accessibility of these settings. For that purpose, defining and managing recreational carrying capacity is considered as significant in ensuring ecological value's and recreational satisfaction's continuity. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the carrying capacity of Erzurum Urban Forest with respect to Level of Service (LOS) as a new management technique that focuses on service quality and visitor satisfaction. The data were obtained by self-administered questionnaire conducted with 166 visitors on weekends and holidays during summer season of the year 2014. Data were analyzed by dimensions/indicators of recreational satisfaction and socio-demographic characteristics with intent to identify tolerance range of visitors. The contribution and relative importance of each of the indicators to the overall satisfaction were analyzed by using Ordinal Logistic Model (OLM). The results indicated that the four indicators were at the greatest degree; "distance from picnic spot to toilets" and "quantity of children's playground facilities" were decease of overall satisfaction while "distance from picnic spot to parking" and "level of shade at picnic spot" had a positive contribution to the overall satisfaction. The outputs from these analyses were used to calculate LOS. It was revealed that the level of service (0.40) in Erzurum Urban Forest was below the moderate level. Planning and managing strategies for optimizing the LOS were developed and discussed by considering these results.

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The Role of Satisfaction and Emotional Response in the Choice Mechanisms of Suburban Natural-Areas Users

López-Mosquera

Sánchez

2011

Environmental Management

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The unique observations and experiences of users of suburban natural areas lead them to perceive their surroundings in a manner associated with their personal values. It follows that every individual has a unique cognitive decision-making structure. This paper examines users' affective and cognitive evaluation of a particular suburban natural area by applying the means-end chain method to reveal the cognitive mechanism by which users link the attributes and benefits of an environmental public good with their own personal values. Analysis of a survey conducted of visitors to a Spanish suburban natural area (park) reveals the main attributes to be the opportunity to practice sports and proximity of the park and the main potential benefits to be the improvement of physical and psychological well-being. The desired personal values include fun, quality of life and self-fulfillment at the individual level and improved social relationships at the collective level. The paper also tests for cross-group, cognitive-structure differences in visitor groups, segmented by level of satisfaction and reported range of emotions, and finds that perceived physical and psychological health improvements and individual and social awareness increase with higher levels of satisfaction and emotional response. Therefore, the recommendations for natural area management suggested by these findings include enhancing the scenic beauty and peacefulness of suburban natural areas in order to improve the affective state of visitors because this could contribute to reducing social costs (including health care) within the area of influence of the natural area.

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An application of the recreation level of service approach to forests in Israel

Cited by 12 publications

References 44 publications

Can Forest Management in Protected Areas Produce New Risk Situations? A Mixed-Motive Perspective from the Dadia-Soufli-Lefkimi Forest National Park, Greece

Can Forest Management in Protected Areas Produce New Risk Situations? A Mixed-Motive Perspective from the Dadia-Soufli-Lefkimi Forest National Park, Greece

Examining the Level of Service in the Context of Recreational Carrying Capacity in the Erzurum Urban Forest, Turkey

The Role of Satisfaction and Emotional Response in the Choice Mechanisms of Suburban Natural-Areas Users

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